Having survived and memorably documented his hikes along the Nile and across the Himilayas, Levison Wood provides here an account of his most ambitious expedition yet: circumnavigating the Arabian Peninsula. Travelling through some of the harshest yet most historic environments on earth, he challenges our perceptions of an often misunderstood part of the world, seeing how the region has changed and recounting the stories that Westerners seldom hear. Illustrated with 16 pages of color photos, Wood's travelogue—published in the U.K. as Arabia—is a compelling chronicle of his travels through ancient Petra and futuristic Dubai, and from a devastated Syrian town to Jerusalem's ethereal Dome of the Rock.